and really, theyre playing dallas. RW and our hawks laid a 27-7 win over them in week 2 when we had a limited playbook, and werent even thinking playoffs. also, SF looked pretty good. how did that turn out.

SNDavidson wrote:I'm starting to worry about the condition of that field in Washington, that looks just as bad or worse than Chicago's "grass"

well, at least the weather forecast looks good all week.a chance of snow new years day, and sunshine thereafter. highs 40-45 lows in the 20's. actually a lot like seattles weather this coming week. nice.

hawksfansinceday1 wrote:Who did the '05 team beat in their first game in the playoffs? Oh yeah, the Redskins. Symmetry babeeee!!!!!!

We played down to their level, still won. SA got hit and concussed in the red zone. Glad we got this sub-par performance out of the way today. We should be el frikin fuego next week. Hawks by 2 TDs; 30-16.

I wanted Dallas in the Wild Card. If we get the Skins, this is where having our First team D practice our First team O could really pay off. I know it was felt that Pete doing this was "out of the box" and somewhat irregular for the NFL, but it may pay off big against the Skins if we do indeed get them in a week.

Timberhawk wrote:I wanted Dallas in the Wild Card. If we get the Skins, this is where having our First team D practice our First team O could really pay off. I know it was felt that Pete doing this was "out of the box" and somewhat irregular for the NFL, but it may pay off big against the Skins if we do indeed get them in a week.

Keep in mind that Pete was looking at footage of RG3 and stole some of the stuff the skins were doing with him and implemented it with Wilson.

So that could help too... makes it easier to defend when you run it too.

Skins probably run the zone read option better than anyone. However, I like our defense against that type of offense. If we key on it, prepare for it, like we did against Carolina earlier this year we should be able to contain them. I think we gotta smash RGIII in the mouth too; remember he has a gimpy knee. He needs to pay if he chooses not to slide on his runs.

They are a blitz happy defense, a reflection of their d-coordinator. Whereas Dallas is piss poor at countering the blitz I think RW and Unger make them pay. Should be a fun game.

kmedic wrote:Skins probably run the zone read option better than anyone. However, I like our defense against that type of offense. If we key on it, prepare for it, like we did against Carolina earlier this year we should be able to contain them. I think we gotta smash RGIII in the mouth too; remember he has a gimpy knee. He needs to pay if he chooses not to slide on his runs.

They are a blitz happy defense, a reflection of their d-coordinator. Whereas Dallas is piss poor at countering the blitz I think RW and Unger make them pay. Should be a fun game.

We can certainly beat either team but I'd like to play the Cowboys. They seem to be a lot more beat up right now, I think we would play better on the Cowboy turf and most of all, there are a few Cowboy fans I work with and would love to throw it in their face after the hawks destroy them in their stadium.